1640 Quotes

#1. The idea of sovereignty current in the English speaking world of the 1760's was scarcely more than a century old. It had first emerged during the English Civil War, in the early 1640's, and had been established as a canon of Whig political thought in the Revolution of 1688.

Bernard Bailyn

#2. The present syllabus in our high schools corresponds almost exactly to what was known in 1640.

W.W. Sawyer

#3. We can never establish with certainty what part of our relations with others is the result of our emotions - love, antipathy, charity, or malice - and what part is predetermined by the constant power play among individuals.

Milan Kundera

#4. Don't count your owls before they are delivered.

J.K. Rowling

#5. Although not well known outside Wall Street, Freddie Mac and its corporate cousin, Fannie Mae, are two of the world's largest financial institutions and play a crucial role in the housing market.

Alex Berenson

#6. Get used to your mortality.
It will eventually consume you
so why not pick up an addiction.

Pamela August Russell

#7. Faith is not in your head. Faith is in your heart. Sometimes you have to turn your mind off and listen to your heart.

Joel Osteen

#8. Whatever men expect, they soon come to think they have a right to; the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill on our part, be turned into a sense of injury. (senior devil speaking)

C.S. Lewis

#9. I don't want to play the fat guy or the friend for the rest of my life.

Sean Astin

#10. There are some situations one simply cannot be neutral about, because when you are neutral you are an accomplice. Objectivity doesn't mean treating all sides equally. It means giving each side a hearing.

Christiane Amanpour